Rising Sun, Falling Skies

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Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after Americaas entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East a directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught. It would be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific.A message transmitted in Morse code reported a large flight of aircraft
approaching. It was followed by a repeat of ... King told the man who answered,
First Lieutenant Benny Putnam, to sound the air raid alarm. Upon hearing the ...
around 11:00 am. Now appearing over Clark Field were 27 Mitsubishi G4M
bombers, which the.

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Rising Sun, Falling Skies

Author

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Jeffrey Cox

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Osprey Publishing - 2015-11-20

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